Louis danois



FFICE.

LOUIS DANOIS, OF PARIS, FRANCE.

FLOCK-PAPER.

. SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 518,878, dated April 24, 1894.

I Application filed December 20, 1892- Serial No. 455,837. ($pecimens.)

To Ml whom it may concern;

Be it known that I, LOUIS 'DANOIs,a citizen or paper-hangings known in the industry as flock papers, and has for its object to provide a new article of manufacture intended to imitate silk, damask, velvet or like cloths. I manufacture this new article by employing the hereinafter described combination of means actually known and generally used in this industry.

First. I use, as for example, a paperimitating cloth known as surah 'or a bronze ground-colored paper, having the same tint or shade as the cloth, stuff or fabric to be imi tated. Any suitable ground color, such as light rose, sky blue, mignonette or other convenient one might be employed. This surah orbronzeground-colored paper,manufactured by a well known process should be preferably rolled in order toimitate the twill of the cloth.

Second. The ground-colored paper having been prepared in this manner, I print, by means of a printing or stereotype plate, a suitable drawing or border (the pattern of which is engraved in relief on the printing plate), with a paste colored in the same shade as the silk-flock which will be applied in a following operation.

Third. When the paste thus printed is dry,

and always using the same engraved plate, I

' what lighter shade.

reprint the -drawings or border, above the paste, with a compound of boiled oil and white lead generally used in said industry.

Fourth. The drawing or border being printed with this compound, the roll of paper is passed through an ordinary velveting machine, then by means of a sieve, the such prepared roll is sprinkled with silk-flock tinted in the same shade as the surah or bronzecolored ground paper or preferably in a some- The velveting machine consists of a wooden trough mounted on a frame and having a bottom of canvas, or similar material overlaid by several thicknesses of yellow wax dissolved in turpentine to preator then strikes the canvas bottom with a long fork, causing the silk to spring up or rise somewhat and attach itself uniformly upon all the parts of the paper that have been impressed with the pattern or design. The tapestry is then spread over an ordinary drying frame.

Fifth. When these rollsof tapestry have been dried during one hour about, I spread them out upon a plane table and by means of a brush as soft as possible, preferably a badger-hair brush, I brush, either by hand or mechanically the silk-flock and thus I slope it slightly by brushing in the vertical direction of the drawing, that is from left to right. When this operation is done, the silk-flock, changes its aspect; it becomesbright and has thoroughly the light and dark reflex of the plush, an effect heretofore unknown in the stained paper industry.

Sixth. By the same process and always employing the same material, say the silk-flock, I may also imitate the plain plush by operating as follows: I take a roll or panel of any desired size and lay on it a suitably shaded ground color. When the colored paper is sized and when the paste is dry, the hereinbefore described compound is laid thereon and the subsequent operations are the same as for the drawings or borders; that is: the roll or panel is passed through a velveting machine, sprinkled by means of a sieve with silk-flock, then beaten or agitated as before described and let dry during about one hour. After this time, the said roll or panel is spread out upon a table, as hereinbefore explained,""and by using a soft brush, preferably a badgerhair brush, the silk-flock is slightly sloped, but not in the manner hereinbefore explained, while, in order to obtain the various reflexes of plush tapestry,.instead of brushing in the vertical direction a circular brushing is necessary. Thus I obtain the various and bright reflexes which take place in the plush and this new article may be employed as paper hangings for decorating apartments or other ornamenting purposes. I may also combine the foregoing process with a cold or hot stamping, the silk-flock being in this case either depressed or embossed by means of plates or cylinders deepened or engraved in relief and ornamented, if desired, with one or more leafor-powder-bronze or gold colors applied with screw press or cylinder by a well known process.

Seventh. By the same process, I may also imitate plush of various colors and reflexes by means of several successive printings, each of which is efiected in the manner hereinbe fore stated.

Flock-paper of suitable color and prepared according to the method hereinbefore specified might be employed for manufacturing very cheap hats for gentlemen or ladies and for other like purposes.

Having now particularly described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. As a new article of manufacture, flock paper consisting of a tinted paper having a pattern imprinted in its surface in colored paste, a coating of boiled oil and white lead applied over said pattern, and an outer coating of silk flock applied over said compound, substantially as described.

2. The process herein described of making silk flocked paper, consisting in first imprinting a pattern in the surface of the paper with colored paste, applying a coating of boiled oil Rom. M. IIOOPER, W. YORK. 

